Dr Gloom

get the fuck in hatem you beaut

obertan never challenges for an areal ball does he? he musn't fancy getting his head on it, which is unusual given the size of his bonce.

about fucking time.

jonas has consistently been one of our best performers this season you knacker.

why can't pardew see what the rest of us see? why is he persisting with best and obertan given we haven't won in 6? why won't he give ben arfa a start? i can only think he's fallen out with en arfa behind the scenes. he's got to be worth a try - more than 10 or 20 minutes off the bench surely?

and hasn't scored in his last 8 games. why exactly is he keeping ben arfa out?

best is fucking hopeless in the air.

dull as dishwater game so far. both keeper's hardly tested. still no ben arfa. you'd think he'd be due a start given how crap we've been recently. definitely something going on behind the scenes there because neither best or obertan are doing enough to prevent him getting a start.

Since when is Golf a sport? They lazy cunts dont even carry their own bags! They're finely tuned athletes. Just look at John Daly

There a dickheads in every town in the country Stevie. I've met sound people from all of those areas though so its difficult to generalise and make some sweeping statement.... nah, fuck all that, it's Mancs, definitely Mancs.

Fucking hell CT, that's a pretty shocking top three favourite films. Mine would have to be: The Great Escape National Lampoons Christmas Vacation It's a wonderful Life Elf Any Bond film

Since when did the nation start giving a shit about cycling? It's a minority sport as far as I'm concerned and one of the dullest to watch out there. Should have gone to one of the cricketers or golfers.

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First season in he forked out 10m on Colo. I don't think we've spent more than half that in the last couple of years, despite the 35m profit floating around the club account. Who is our most expensive signing since coming back up - 4m on Cabaye was it? The rest have mainly been freebies or bargains. Not saying there's anything wrong with bargain hunting when it works. But we're still woefully short in most areas of the squad. It would only have taken moderate investment by Ashley to make all areas of the squad competitive. He's not arsed though is he? He'd rather not lose more of his own money.

Where does the money come from? It's a very simple question. It shouldn't be forgotten that Ashley is the 7th wealthiest owner in the league. We're certainly not the 7th biggest spenders though. If he doesn't want to play with the big boys, it's his choice...and we can criticise him for that. If the figures are to be believed then the club has cost him over a quarter of his fortune. That's a lot for anyone. But I agree with what you say, no one forced him into buying us. He's definitely got the resources to invest more in the playing staff. Regrettably his heart isn't in it anymore. As tedious as Leazesmag is, he's right when we says Ashley has turned us back into a selling club. He doesn't care enough about the club succeeding now to reverse the transfer policy of recent years.

we are missing Steven Taylor. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't rate him. Agreed, I like Taylor particularly alongside Colocinni but Williamson/Perch are both poor back up and who knows when Taylor will be back with the injury he has. Williamson could do a job I reckon. He's not the quickest but he looked decent alongside colo last season and kept Taylor out of the side for long periods. I think Taylor's been brilliant for us this season but the problem isn't a fit Williamson offering cover - its James perch being anywhere near the side.

433 hopefully with arfa and ba buzzing around shola. Throw the kitchen sink at them ffs. We must score - all the good work in the early part of the season is going down the toilet

Some of pardews decision making is starting to irritate me.

Ba - best signing in the prem this year!

Could do with getting back into the winning habit tonight. The winless streak is in danger of starting to build a head of steam. We were all buzzing when we went all that time unbeaten but things can soon go the other way after a string of poor results.

I wouldnt be at all surprised if that money is never reinvested. Fair enough, a fit ba is a good replacement for Carroll but that isn't a good enough excuse not to pump a good chunk of that 35m back into other areas of the squad where we're weak. Besides, we needed an extra striker even before we sold Carroll.

When the fuck is Ben arfa ganna get a start in midfield like?

I'm not training until new year now. Looking forward to ten days of rich food, fine wine and port and cheese then back to the gym like a beast on January 2nd.

Obertan drooling like a gormless idiot out on the touch line is not something to shout about

Selling tiote is just another example of how short sighted Ashley's policy is. Yes he might turn another tidy profit but another integral player is sold just as the team looks like its starting to gel. It's infuriating. No point speculating at all on who we get in. It'll no doubt be some foreigner we've never heard of that could potential turn another profit in 18 months time, at the expense of building a successful team.